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RE: backslash and backslash backslash
- To: 'Bernard Dautrevaux' <Dautrevaux at microprocess dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: RE: backslash and backslash backslash
- From: "Richardson, Anthony M." <ar63 at evansville dot edu>
- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 11:52:24 -0600
Umm. I don't think piping into read works
either. (At least it doesn't for me.) I think
it is because you set the variable in a subshell
but not in the parent shell where you need it.
Use
mypath=$(cygpath -was $1)
or
mypath=`cygpath -was $1`
instead.
Regards,
Tony Richardson
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bernard Dautrevaux [mailto:Dautrevaux@microprocess.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 11:25 AM
> To: 'Wilson Farrell'; cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: backslash and backslash backslash
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Wilson Farrell [mailto:wfarrell@bbn.com]
> > Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 5:56 PM
> > To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> > Subject: backslash and backslash backslash
> >
> >
> > In an attempt to access Netscape's sendto from cygwin I
> > created a simple
> > script:
> >
> > sendto.sh
> > -------
> > #!/bin/bash
> >
> > /usr/bin/cygpath.exe -aw $1; read mypath
> >
> > /cygdrive/c/Apps/Netscape/Program/sendto32.exe $mypath
>
> I'd rather try:
>
> /cygdrive/c/Apps/Netscape/Program/sendto32.exe
> `/usr/bin/cygpath.exe
> -aw $1`
>
> but in any case you should use:
>
> /usr/bin/cygpath.exe -aw $1 | read mypath
>
> Regards,
>
> Bernard
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